By Canaan Lidor
"If Israelis don’t control it, they don’t control Gaza,” Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes says of the Philadelphi Corridor.
By David Isaac
Two new polls show that the Israeli public backs the Netanyahu government's position that holding the Egypt-Gaza border is critical to Israel's security.
“Egypt is able to protect its interests and sovereignty and these will not be surrendered to a group of extremist Israeli leaders seeking to drag the region into a state of conflict,” said the head of Egypt's State Information Services.
Gazan are calling the IDF simply to vent their anger at Hamas and encourage the Israelis to continue their offensive.
By Daniel Pipes
By removing this layer of Israeli protection, an "exponential increase" in the Gaza arsenal predictably followed, culminating in the Fajr-5 missiles that reached Tel Aviv this month.
